Milliron Monday: The Journals January - March 1973

 Abbott "Pete" Smith D.V.M.:  June 16, 1938 - February 22, 2010

Virginia Joyann "Jody" Haley Smith: April 2, 1938 - May 9, 2021

Welcome to Milliron Monday where every Monday we celebrate the legacy of Milliron Farm and Clinic, Dr. Pete and Jody Smith.

A continuation of Jody’s Journals.

Jody’s Journals

January - March 1973

JANUARY

·        Sodium phenobarbitone – Los Angeles investigations, “Veterinary Road”, Dog World, Oct 1972, p. 6.

·        Clovite, vitamins > Tues, Thurs, Sat

·        Change bedding > 1^st and 2^nd weeks

·        Change water in humidifier

·        Jan, David here for dinner; worked on J. P.’s models, played chess

·        Rode through woods, around trails; rode Preak, Pat Cricket, Pete Sailor, J Shah

·        Cooked squirrel and grouse in crockpot

·        Pasteurized milk

·        1^st ATC

·        Rode Cricket, Pete Sailor, moved Apple, Maverick, Lolly, Persimmon over to pasture around trails, J rode Shah, saw 5 or 6 deer

·        Kanga stitches from castration to be removed

·        Gary Parker, friend here with new pup, Squid

·        Read to Pat “Winnie the Pooh”

·        Wrote letter to Jessie, Mom, Dad

·        Gordon shod Sailor

·        Jennifer scrubbed upstairs bathroom

·        Worked Shane with prong collar

·        4-H meeting

·        To Mansfield >Gary worked on J’s teeth, dinner with Gary and Aggie, played hearts with J. and P.

·        Wade Price took “Sailor”, grained Apple, Maverick, Jiggs,

·        Snow day, no school

·        Worked on log sheets

·        Rode Cricket over jumps 3 times, J rode Shah

·        Took grain in, ran errands, library

·        Worked Shane

·        Fritz shod Cricket, Shah

·        Grained colts, burros

·        7:15 Pete Humane Society

·        Drove basketball; visited Dunfee’s store

·        Pete rode Cricket, J Shah, saw 2 deer in the blackberry meadow

·        Gassan's here > international buffet dinner, played chess here

·        Elkhound, strychnine, spent night in our bedroom

·        Rode Preak, J. Shah, Pete Cricket, lame

·        Visited Messenger Open House

·        Communion service

·        Pizza Hut dinner

·        Betty, Abbott called

·        Wrote letter to Jessie, Mom, Dad

·        Made butter

·        J. P. no school, President Johnson’s funeral

·        Mailed clothes to Carol, ran errands, groceries

·        Jennifer washed downstairs bathroom, kitchen

·        Pat cleaned kitchen desk

·        Took J to slumber party at Pam Brooks

·        Took Pat basketball game

·        Finished sorting out junk from desk

·        Sunday Church Good Shepherd, lunch at Perkins

·        Dinner, leg of lamb, Betty, Abbott

·        Walked with dogs, B.A. Pete, light snow

·        Oyster stew

·        Bill 4 bales hay in sheep shed

·        Oranges, grapefruit from Mom

·        James Hart overnight with Pat

·        Skating party Methodist Church

·        Retyped 4-H Constitution, by-laws

·        Wrote mom letter

·        Pete took lambs to Snap’s 

FEBRUARY

·        Ralph Guthrie swabbed well

·        SEOAV Burr Oak

·        Snap’s cut up lamb [Snap Coakley]

·        3 rainbows on drive up 50A

·        Sunday Church Episcopal > Jan, David lunch Tri-County Lodge, picked up lamb

·        Rode Shah, Pete rode Cricket, saw 4 deer

·        Took lamb to Bakers, got milk

·        Belgian sale, Jerry Hartley drove

·        Pete rode Sailor at Wade Price’s

·        Lunch, Schmidt’s Sausage House on Fairgrounds

·        Supper at Kanes

·        Mended, ironed, laundry

·        Saw 5 deer on hillside from barn

·        Put new ribbon in typewriter

·        Game Warden (Wells) here about spotlighting deer in meadow

·        Pat haircut, Fritz

·        Basketball game, took Bill Wright > Pizza Hut

·        Sunday Church McDougal Church > Pete calving case

·        Paula Brown, Jim Farley here for afternoon

·        Rode down Dutch Creek, counted horses, left Angel there

·        Jogged the dogs around the hay meadow, down creek, Pete!

·        Jogged dogs, set out live trap

·        TB test, ran errands, took corn in

·        Barrett's picked up J. P. for McDougal pizza party

·        Sheep Producers School

·        Sailor gone one month today

·        Saw fox in hay meadow

·        Checked trap

·        Deworm horses

·        Jogged dogs, followed deer trails, checked trap

·        8 pm Humane Society

·        Saw deer by gates in bottom

·        Reeves here > put control collar on Zeke

·        Marshall Adams here briefly

·        Sunday McDougal Church

·        Sailor returned

·        First new lamb

·        Picked J up at school, shopped for sale clothes

·        Betty, Abbott arrived

·        Rode Cricket, Pete rode Sailor

·        Betty Abbott left [one day visit]

·        J. P. McDougal Youth Fellowship

·        Sheep Producers School > drove Mary Ann Kilzer

·        8 am Pooh dead

·        Saw 3 grouse

·        Tiger Tomcat in trap

·        Baked 2 loaves Boston brown bread

·        Nearly hit 3 deer, rabbit

·        Willie Lafollette’s birthday

·        Pete “no-till’ corn clinic

·        Headache

·        Yellow cat in trap

·        OVMA Meeting Columbus > historical center, banquet, lunch Star Jones, shopped Lazarus, Garden Show, Art Museum, COSI, sheep school

MARCH

·        4-H Ad-Hoc Dog Commission

·        Sunday Church Episcopal

·        Jerry Hartley here

·        Saw 8 deer > Pete “whistled up” 7, played in hay meadow

·        Helped Mae with Josh

·        Dewormed horses, burros, RV, Lepto, VEE, detailed, castrated lambs

·        Jessica, Song, 4-H cable TV, Nelsonville, 2 Farley children here

·        Butchered, dressed 8 rabbits (1 to cats, bad/dark liver)

·        Dewormed ponies, trimmed feet

·        Pat worked Kanga

·        Watched “Kung Fu”  TV

·        Chopped vines, trail toward Negro Den cliff top

·        Lunch at BBF, groceries, baked 2 spice cakes, PTO Spring Carnival

·        Sunday Church of Good Shepherd

·        Left for Strickland Carson Clinic, picked up Susan Nolan > Bloomington, Indiana

·        Dinner with Jan Worthington

·        Watched movie “Sheepdogs in Germany”

·        Flu

·        Watched movie “Shamu” with Hartley’s, J. P. Jerry D., Walt Disney “Sword and the Stone”

·        SEOAV – Tri-County Motor Lodge

·        Dinner Linger Longer Inn R 50

·        Missy, whipworm treatment

·        Jogged Kanga, Shane, fox followed us over hill

·        Took shovels, worked on stream over trail

·        1^st 4-H meeting

·        Bill, David finished lunging ring

 

Please forgive typos, name or place misspellings; transcription from

vintage handwriting sometimes requires a magnifying glass and random

interpretation.

Enjoy the journey!

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